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Article: The cassette tape's looming demise Decline in audio books heralds the end of another tech era
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- July 29, 2008
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Andrew Adam Newman The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
07-29-2008
The cassette tape's looming demise Decline in audio books heralds the end of another tech era
Byline: Andrew Adam Newman The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FINANCE/BUSINESS
There was a funeral the other day in the New York City offices of Hachette, the book publisher, to mourn the passing of what it called a "dear friend." Nobody had actually died, except for a piece of technology, the cassette tape.
While the cassette was dumped long ago by the music industry, it has lived on among publishers of audio books. Many people prefer cassettes because they make it easy to pick up in the same ...